technology
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice.” Rather than ask how progress ends, shouldn’t we be asking how progress bends?
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Although Greg Epstein’s analysis and critique of what he calls a tech religion are on target, his solutions for undoing its damage are bland, vague, and toothless.
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This book argues that environmental and industrial regulations, in place since the early 19th century, weren’t devised to reign in environmental destruction or workplace dangers.
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s Curriculum II is no intellectual exercise. It is a gut-wrenching journey into the heart of darkness, offset by flashes of compassion and light.
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MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.
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This BarabásiLab exhibition is inspiring because it exemplifies a powerful integration of art and technology.
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Coders had nothing in their intellectual toolbox that would help them understand people.
Read MoreTheo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures delightfully blur the conventional lines that divide art, science, and storytelling.
Read MoreTechnology is the gimmick in this two-hander, but what makes Blink absorbing is the writing, teamed with excellent acting and directing.
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Book Commentary: “Taming Silicon Valley” — Man Over AI
The kinds of regulations Gary Marcus proposes, however well-intentioned they may be, would — in practice — only end up further disenfranchising the masses.
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